Monthly Archives: October 2011

Ghost Town

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

My work brings me to a lot of factories and big industrial facilities. When one drives by one of these enormous factories, one imagines hundreds of busy hard hat wearing workers, maybe even thousands. That’s probably how it was long … Continue reading →

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“White Supremecists Are Not Human”

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

A bit of humor today.  I was on yahoo and found a story about a reformed skinhead and the touching story describing how he was determined to remove his tattoos: http://news.yahoo.com/reformed-skinhead-endures-agony-remove-tattoos-162205881.html ZOG’s media shills really wrote a great article.  I almost felt … Continue reading →

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The Best Way of Teaching

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

I would like to be counted among the few Americans who does not think our educational system is broken.  Certainly there are structural changes or personnel changes that could be optimized, but I believe that most of the blame must … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged | 4 Comments

Weekly Linkage: Putting the “Mite” in Anti-Semite Edition

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Al Fin: “Peak Ingenuity and Peak Manpower Skills: Human Capital Needed“,”Is This the State of the Earth, Prior to the Collapse?“, “Debating a Near-Term Singularity: Kurzweil vs. Allen” “Starting a New Civilisation from the Ground Up“, “Growing Small Brains on … Continue reading →

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The Fears of Children and Fears of Adults

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I very much look forward to it every year.   When I was a kid I liked nothing better than to scare the bejesus out of myself by watching Freddy, Jason and Michael … Continue reading →

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Pick a Problem

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

There’s a common sin in science that alot of new scientists face and experienced ones as well:  being too generalized.  There is a tremendous amount of information in the world today.  The last I heard the information in the world … Continue reading →

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Science and Jobs

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

I feel that there has been a great deal of mythology associated with science these days. It seems as if everyone is begging for more scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to be degreed. This, they claim, will create jobs and save … Continue reading →

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“Occupy L.A.” Update 10/22/11

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

OK. My plan is to only give updates when I feel that there are significant changes to report. After my last report, I wanted to see what it would look like on the weekend. As I had suspected, three things … Continue reading →

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A Step Up the “Knowledge Pyramid”

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

England has had many youth cultural movements (called “youth cults”) among its working class. In the late 1960s the Skinheads came about as working class gangs of White kids, sometimes very young. These kids intermingled with the Jamaican immigrants in … Continue reading →

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Getting Uncomfortable

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

Dr Bartlett used to say that the exponential function was the most important function on Earth, but I think that the logistic growth equation is much more important.  It describes the behavior of a function whose rate of change is … Continue reading →

Posted in Advantage Play, Human Potential, Studying | Tagged , , | 3 Comments